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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

Reading, Years, Two

Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey”, p.79, Cumulus Publishing Limited

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Jane Austen

Sorrow, Employment, May

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Inspiring, Work, Organization

'Sense and Sensibility' (1811) ch. 13

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

Jane Austen

Mother, Morning, Children

Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey (illustrated)”, p.90, Osmora Incorporated